Hi Mum & Whanau,
Thanks for all your words of encouragement, pictures, prayers and the love you have for me. I really feel it while I'm here.
This week has been awesome and Elder Ofahula and I have been having a blast (no better way to explain it). I realize that the Lord has put me here for a reason, and I'm not sure if I told you but Elder Ofa and I white washed an area - well actually two. It has been a crazy but an awesome week trying to find our way around this huge area.
On Tuesday we went out and worked in a place called Bagbag, Sauyo. It was good and we were able to find a lot of families that had already been taught by the missionaries and so we continued to teach these families. We had an awesome day and I found this place that sells, "Magnums!" Ohhhhhh, I have had about 8 this week already. Hehe! (they did not have magnums in Mindoro).
Wednesday we had MTC exchanges which means the Elders from the MTC here come to our Zone, and then we go on splits with them, which if you can imagine is quite difficult when you don't even know the area that well. So, we told them that we didn't know the area that well and that we were going to do a lot of finding. Well, after about four hours of walking through a lot of rain and 8 jeepney rides later we were able to find a lot of people and became a lot more familiar with our new area. It was awesome. We then went to MacDonald's for dinner (my first time since coming off Mindoro) and it was masarap… sobra!
Thursday I went on exchanges with one of the other Elders in my District, because I'm a District leader but sadly he had LBM's. Poor dude. Needless to say we were unable to go out and work because Elder Fackrell (from Boise Idaho) was so sick. It was okay because I had a good rest and chatted with him.
On Friday we had weekly planning then went out and worked. It was a good day and we went to a new area called, Upper Banlat. We knew there were a tonne of members there but we didn't know exactly where because as you know there are no street signs or addresses. We were blessed and the Lord watched over us and we found just about all the people we were looking for and were able to teach about 6 lessons. Well, what happened was we were walking down this one street and we see this little old man walking down the street in his garment top. As you can imagine we were kinda thrown off by that but he talked to us and told us where he lived. He took us to this one house where we taught and met a great family who are less active but the mum came to church on Sunday. Astig! It was cool and later that night we went over to Bishop's house and had dinner. And guess what was for dessert? Magnums!… Mmmm, sarap.
On Saturday we had a baptism - well actually 3 - and I've sent pictures. It was awesome and this time not down at the ocean like Mindoro but the people were so ready it was incredible. They are the Trespaderme family and the nanay is Sister Concepcion, Sister Angeline, and their son Ronnie. It was awesome.
On Sunday siyemprey, we went to church and it was great to see that the chapel had been upgraded since I was last here. There were cushions on the seats and curtains on all the windows and it looked really flash. I think I'm in love with the Ward here because they are so organized and I say that because of my experiences in Mindoro where the church is still very young. I love it here and we were called upon to sing at a Fireside - me, Elder Ofahulu and Elder Heather (he's the Zone leader here in Tandang Sora) and it was awesome. We sang, "Brightly Beams."
Today was a good day and just a normal P-Day where we had our District meeting, did our laundry, shopped and now emails. It has been a great week and I look forward to this new week. We have people working with us just about every day and we have a tonne of dinner appointments too. Astig.
Mate good on Cola for getting a Filipino companion. You have got to send me pictures of her and her companion when you get some. Cola is going to have a blast and I am so excited for her.
Good news, Elder Bednar is coming to my Mission and he arrives on August 31st. Astig .
It is awesome to hear that you are all doing so well and I love and miss you all. I think one of the down sides of having a NZ companion is that we talk a lot about home and it makes you remember stuff about home and then you start missing home. Its all good. Take care and know that I love you.
Elder Chadderton
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